WFPHA newsletter October 2011

The October 2011 newsletter of the World Federation of Public Health Associations is now available online: http://www.wfpha.org/online-newsletter/item/WFPHA_Newsletter_-_October_2011.html The newsletter includes the following topics:

• launch of the African Federation of Public Health Associations
• last call for abstracts 13th world congress on public health
• information for WFPHA members: the results of the WFPHA survey are now available.
• UN high-level meeting to address the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDS) September 19 in New York City
• report from the Swiss public health conference
• IDRCs new NCDP program
• the McGill university institute for health & social policy’s world legal rights data centre
• publications
• upcoming events: e.g. WFPHA to attend 139th APHA conference, conference welfare development and health, the 1st international symposium on health research & development and the 3rd western pacific regional conference on public health 2011, 5th high-level symposium on global health diplomacy, global alcohol policy conference 2011